Motivation & Resources for Learning Korean

Month: March 2014

Gotta love those Korean expressions!~ My favorite this time is clearly #1 – the Forrest Gump style picture. But the last one (the Hanja one) is also quite good. 공수래공수거 (空手來空手去) This expression is very religious (or “zen” as others might say). The Bible also has some nearly identical phrases in it: “Naked I came […]

Korean Grammar in Use: Intermediate provides quite a step up from the previous book. There is TONS of new vocab and plenty more grammar points. As such, the book really ought to be studied at a slightly slower pace than Korean Grammar in Use: Beginner in order to learn and remember as much as possible. […]

Getting Korean subtitles on Hollywood movies isn’t nearly as hard as it seems. In fact, there’s a feature to do so built right into GOM Player (I knew there must be a good reason Koreans prefer GOM to VLC). Depending on your OS, the buttons may appear slightly differently, but the procedure is exactly the […]

I’ve recently been listening to the Internet Business Mastery podcast with Jeremy Frandsen and Jason Van Orden because they focus on the types of things that can help make anyone successful in an online business: Motivation Habits Actually, these are the same two things that can make anyone successful at anything. And they are most […]

Since Koreans have such a wide variety of ways to explain people’s lives based on how an adjective describes something, I decided to list a bunch of those here: Which one best describes you? I’ve definitely got a “long mouth” and wish I had “bigger hands.” My mom and mother-in-law (as well as most ajummas […]